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Originally Posted by Lubicon
I wonder if this will become the new norm in general. There's some upside to this type of pricing structure for both manufacturers and consumers. Manufacturers could streamline and simplify their assembly lines by reducing or eliminating the number of models they make for each vehicle. Consumers can select which features they want and perhaps be able to get things in combinations that are not currently available the way vehicle models are sold now.
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I don’t know if it’s the right kind of streamlining to have every feature physically installed in a car but basically greyed-out. Manufacturing costs will be more for each vehicle and be susceptible to supply-chain disruptions if they go with this kind of enable-on-demand strategy.